The short answer
- Stan Store costs $29 a month (Creator) or $99 a month (Creator Pro) after a 14-day free trial. There is no free plan.
- Stan takes 0% of your sales, but you pay Stripe’s or PayPal’s processing fees.
- Zyentora’s Free plan costs ₹0 a month. It keeps the product’s base price and 10% of your markup on each sale, so you pay nothing until you sell.
- On Stan you sell your own products, coaching and courses. On Zyentora you resell ready-made products.
Side by side
| Stan Store | Zyentora | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No; 14-day free trial | Yes, with no time limit |
| Paid plans | Creator: $29 a month or $300 a year. Creator Pro: $99 a month or $948 a year | Optional. Pro: ₹399 a month or ₹4,309 a year. Pro+: ₹799 a month or ₹8,629 a year |
| Cut of each sale | 0% | Free: the base price + 10% of your markup. Pro and Pro+ keep less (see below) |
| Payment processing | Stripe’s or PayPal’s standard fee, paid by you | No extra deduction |
| How buyers pay | Through your Stripe or PayPal account | Razorpay: UPI, cards, netbanking |
| What you sell | Your own digital products, courses, coaching and more | Zyentora’s ready-made catalogue, at your own price |
The monthly cost, before your first sale
Stan’s subscription is a fixed cost: after the trial, the Creator plan is $29 every month, or $300 a year, whether you sell or not. Creator Pro, which adds email marketing, upsells, funnels and more, is $99 a month or $948 a year.
Zyentora’s Free plan has no fixed cost: Zyentora earns only when you make a sale. The optional Pro and Pro+ plans are for people who sell enough that keeping more of each sale is worth a monthly fee.
The honest trade-off: a subscription with no cut is cheaper once you sell a lot of your own products. A free plan with a share of each sale is cheaper while you are starting, or when you don’t have a product of your own.
Taking payments from India
Stan connects to your own Stripe or PayPal account. Stripe’s support site says businesses in India can’t sign up for a new Stripe account on its website at the moment: accounts are invite-only. Stan’s pricing page doesn’t mention UPI.
Zyentora handles checkout itself through Razorpay, so your buyers can pay by UPI, cards or netbanking, and you don’t open any payment account.
Which one fits
Choose Stan Store if you already sell your own courses, coaching or products, sell enough each month to make $29 to $99 worthwhile, and your audience pays happily by card or PayPal.
Choose Zyentora if you want to start for ₹0, don’t have a product of your own yet, and your buyers are in India and like to pay by UPI.
About Zyentora
How Zyentora works. Zyentora makes the products (ebooks, guides, templates, trackers). You pick which ones to sell, set your own price above each product’s fixed base price, and share your store link. You don’t create, upload or host anything. Zyentora keeps the base price and a fee on your markup, never on the whole sale:
| Zyentora plan | Monthly cost | Zyentora keeps | Minimum payout | Products in your store |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | ₹0 | The base price + 10% of your markup | ₹500 | 5 at a time |
| Pro | ₹399 (or ₹4,309 a year) | 50% of the base price + 7% of your markup | ₹250 | 15 at a time |
| Pro+ | ₹799 (or ₹8,629 a year) | 30% of the base price + 5% of your markup | No minimum | No limit |
Worked example on Free: a product with a ₹39 base price that you sell for ₹149 leaves ₹110 of markup; the fee is 10% of that (₹11), so you receive ₹99. No payment-gateway fee is taken from that: Razorpay’s charges come out of Zyentora’s share. Buyers pay by UPI, cards or netbanking through Razorpay, get the file on screen the moment the payment succeeds and by email, and the download link works for 7 days. Payouts go to your UPI ID or bank account.
Questions
Does Stan Store have a free plan?
No. Stan offers a 14-day free trial; after it the Creator plan is $29 a month (or $300 a year) and Creator Pro is $99 a month (or $948 a year), according to Stan’s pricing page.
Does Stan Store take a commission?
Stan says it takes 0% of your sales. You still pay the standard processing fee of Stripe or PayPal, whichever you connect.
Can Indian creators use Stan Store?
Stan takes payments through your own Stripe or PayPal account. Stripe’s support site says new Stripe accounts for businesses in India are invite-only, so check which option is open to you before you subscribe.
Is Zyentora really free?
Yes, the Free plan has no monthly fee and no joining fee. Zyentora keeps each product’s base price and 10% of your markup when you make a sale.